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E-Mail Messages Were Moved by Outlook to Another File
Outlook Express on my home desktop Dell Dimension 4600i deleted or moved
e-mail messages that I had filed away in some, but not all, of my mailbox folders. This might have happened when I saw (for the first time on this 1 1/2 year old computer) a pop-up box saying that Outlook Express could compact messages in the folders to save space if I clicked the “yes” box. I did, but the program locked up after a few minutes and I had to shut down the computer by the on-off button. Later, on investigation, I noticed on scanning the files that the missing files apparently were not deleted, but (by noting the size of the folders) are in other similar-named folder files. For example, my stripped out folder for USF messages (I teach at USF) I saved are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{020A159C-8D78-4E7A-B147-66259B969DF3}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx But the equivalent files with (apparently) all of the original messages in them that I saved for USF are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{68C8549C-B54C-49C8-AE06-8BBD06069FA8}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx Is there a way to retrieve or move those e-mail messages in the folders so that I can access them? -- Professor |
E-Mail Messages Were Moved by Outlook to Another File
Do you have more than one identity? File | Identities | Manage Identities?
-- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "professor" wrote in message ... Outlook Express on my home desktop Dell Dimension 4600i deleted or moved e-mail messages that I had filed away in some, but not all, of my mailbox folders. This might have happened when I saw (for the first time on this 1 1/2 year old computer) a pop-up box saying that Outlook Express could compact messages in the folders to save space if I clicked the “yes” box. I did, but the program locked up after a few minutes and I had to shut down the computer by the on-off button. Later, on investigation, I noticed on scanning the files that the missing files apparently were not deleted, but (by noting the size of the folders) are in other similar-named folder files. For example, my stripped out folder for USF messages (I teach at USF) I saved are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{020A159C-8D78-4E7A-B147-66259B969DF3}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx But the equivalent files with (apparently) all of the original messages in them that I saved for USF are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{68C8549C-B54C-49C8-AE06-8BBD06069FA8}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx Is there a way to retrieve or move those e-mail messages in the folders so that I can access them? -- Professor |
E-Mail Messages Were Moved by Outlook to Another File
You probably got hit by the compaction bug (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
second paragraph for XP SP2). See point 4 about message recovery techniques. The paths to the files below suggest you have multiple OE identities and only one Identity would have been affected by that problem, so if you go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder it will tell you what the path is for each identity and you can figure out which was damaged. The only recourse to this loss of messages at the moment is DBXpress, which will analyze the entire hard drive disk clusters and if the messages are still there somewhere, it will find them. Its the only program that has this capability. See the description of the extract from disk function he www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/ steve "professor" wrote in message ... Outlook Express on my home desktop Dell Dimension 4600i deleted or moved e-mail messages that I had filed away in some, but not all, of my mailbox folders. This might have happened when I saw (for the first time on this 1 1/2 year old computer) a pop-up box saying that Outlook Express could compact messages in the folders to save space if I clicked the “yes” box. I did, but the program locked up after a few minutes and I had to shut down the computer by the on-off button. Later, on investigation, I noticed on scanning the files that the missing files apparently were not deleted, but (by noting the size of the folders) are in other similar-named folder files. For example, my stripped out folder for USF messages (I teach at USF) I saved are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{020A159C-8D78-4E7A-B147-66259B969DF3}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx But the equivalent files with (apparently) all of the original messages in them that I saved for USF are in: C:\Documents and Settings\J. Thomas McCarthy\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{68C8549C-B54C-49C8-AE06-8BBD06069FA8}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\USF.dbx Is there a way to retrieve or move those e-mail messages in the folders so that I can access them? -- Professor |
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